TGIF Contest (Happy Hour Challenge)


Intellectual Happy Hour....

I wanted to revisit this item that I noted yesterday:

The bronze frog will appear towards the Independence Day in Kyiv. It is planned to place on Peizazhnaya alley. Author of frog, sculptor Oleg Pynchuk has nearly completed plaster copy of amphibian. The frog will weight 6 tons!

Okay, here’s the TGIF Happy Hour Challenge:

Find some way to blame this on “Global Warming”….

First prize: Dinner-for-two with the RedState muckety-muck of your choice.

Have at it….


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Permafrost melt on the (former) Tundra

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 3:57PM EST (link)

has caused frogs to invade Kyiv. However, a shaman stumbling into town searching for decent vodka revealed that the melt is actually due to The Frog God being angry. The shaman, after a few belts of Stoli, disclosed that The Frog God could be appeased with the proper statue.

Adherents of the new Global Warming religion immediately realized that the shaman was right; and like the Israelites and their statue of the Golden Calf in desert, they recognized that only a Really Big Ugly Bronze Statue would do.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

The real truth:

D.T. Dickinson (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 5:25PM EST (link)

Mutant frog sunning in Kyiv (Praise Be to AGW), has healthy bronze glow. Has not as of yet gone a-courtin’.

- D.T. Dickinson

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

C.S. Lewis

he did ride, uh-huh

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 9:41PM EST (link)

froggy gone coutrin’ he did ride, uh-hu
sword and pistol by his side, uh-huh
He rode till he came to masters hall, uh-hu
He rode till he came to masters hall
There he did both knock and call, uh-hu…

Holy crap, I haven’t seen those words since watching Tom and Jerry when I was growing up. BTW what ever happened to Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry?

Technology DTOM..... Technology.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 10:47PM EST (link)

BTW what ever happened to Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry?

DVD’s…… Including all the “banned” WWII cartoons. If you have Comcast cable, their free “On Demand” service features all the cartoons.

————

“These blockbuster bombs don’t go off unless you hit them juuuuuuuust right !”

;)

CGI killed the hand-drawn animation stars. nt

TNJim (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 11:10PM EST (link)

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They're actually still on

Raven (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 12:37AM EST (link)

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and, if you pay extra, you can watch them more often on Nicktoons.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

and Boomerang, also a pay channel. nt

TNJim (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 12:51AM EST (link)

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CGI killed the animated stars...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 2:05AM EST (link)

yeah that may be so, but those animated characters were much funnier. Bugs Bunny, Daffey Duck, Pink Panter, etc. were what I grew up with in the 80′s.

And I grew up with them in the 60's.

TNJim (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 2:15AM EST (link)

Isn’t it funny, except for the big-budget full-length feature films like the ones from Disney and Pixar there was more detail in both the characters and the backgrounds in those old Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Disney shorts than there is in today’s computer drawn ones? Of course, Pixar uses the 3-d style, but now that was some talent in the old days.

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in the 60's

gekster (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 2:18AM EST (link)

Beany and Cecil,
Montgomery Lion,
Heckle and Jeckle,
Tom and Jerry,
Huckleberrie Hound,
Quick Draw McGraw and Bubbalue,
Woody Woodpecker,
Fred Flinstome,
George Jetson, yeah, I know
Scooby Doo,
Archies,
Cosby Kids.
Enough, I’m a 60s kid.

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 
 
 

Here is what I have hanging in my lab...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 2:03AM EST (link)


The Gremlin in this cartoon dressed like Patton in from the US flag. Any time things go wrong we say the gremlin did it, “here gremlin, gremlin, gremlin, nice gremlin.”

Yeah, that little Gremlin. Whoops, sorry again Skanderbeg, not an open thread. Anyway, the best story I had for the frog has already been taken by a few below. I was going down the road of a gilded bronze frog is due to an evolutionary response to Global Warming, the mucuous on the surface of the frog has responded to the increase of CO2 and has begun to collect the copper found in its diet to convert to a shell. Since the frog has evolved to be desired by humans for its shell made out of bronze, it can procreate by humans moving the bronze frogs to their gardens and Coy (Coi) ponds. Luckily, people like having gilded bronze frogs in pairs, the chances of reproduction have been raised. Hows that for a quick attempt at the title of this post.

 
 
 
 

Global Warming Causes Giant Frog Art

Loren Heal (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 6:20PM EST (link)

The Giant Frog Art appeared just when global temperatures are raging out of control. Therefore, Global Warming caused it to appear.

There, assertion proved.

I’m sure you will all agree that I am the winner.

A consensus having been reached, the debate is over. No serious person can doubt that I am the winner. Those trying now to deny that I am the winner are worse than Holocaust deniers.


Join the Concord Project, and follow @lheal, if you dare.

 

Al Gore blames giant frog decline on global warming.

TNJim (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 6:46PM EST (link)

While in Kyiv to observe the only known individual of a species of giant frog Al Gore noted that this is further proof of global warming, or climate change as he quickly corrected himself.

“This is just another example of what can happen if we continue to delay efforts to decrease the effects mankind, and the USA in particular I’m sad to say, has had on global climate. I fear this poor frog isn’t long for this world. Look at the skin color and how lethargic he is. He hasn’t moved since I’ve been here.”

Gore went on to say he looks forward to working with the Obama administration on expanding Cap and Trade and other climate control initiatives. “But we have to move fast. We may be too late to save this species but there are others that require our immediate action,” he added.

When asked why no skeletal remains of this species have ever been found Gore tertly replied, “I’m not here to debate this” as he sprinted up the steps of his private jet. “I have spoken, and that’s all you need to know or report.”

His next stop was reportedly Cairo to observe the remains of an unusual species of giant lion that have been petrified by what he calls “an unrelenting heat that has not only destroyed another rare species but turned all of Northern Africa into a vast desert. Just another example of what is happening because of greenhouse gases.”

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While in Cairo

montanan (Diary) Wednesday, July 1st at 2:23AM EST (link)

Mr. Gore also warned of the disappearance of Manbearpig from it’s natural habitat in Colorado, due to hunting and CO2. When the crowd of worshippers and reporters looked at each other in confusion he said, ” I’m super serial about this guys.”

 
 

Thanks to Global Warming,

Tbone (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 6:55PM EST (link)

we’re down to our last 6 ton frog.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

 

Completely encased in the six-ton plaster frog is an 800-lb granite gorilla.

Chemical Sam (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 7:39PM EST (link)

The 800-lb gorilla monument has the following words tattooed on its sitting pad:

“You can’t hide the truth”.

I blame global warming for causing people to believe that, yes, they can.

Criterion Chemical was in the black for FY2010!
Not bad considering the forces arrayed against small business these days.
Let’s see about actually making some serious profit this year. Shameless capitalism, by:
www.criterionchemical.com

 

It's obvious

Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 8:08PM EST (link)

Global Warming caused flies to overpopulate because of the milder winters when many would be killed off.
The fly overpopulation was a boom for the frog population at first causing their size to become quadrupled and evolve into a new species (Litoria Godzilliculous), until unfortunately man’s overuse of nitrogen fertilizers (which overuse was caused by Global Warming drying the crops which needed the extra nitrogen to compensate-evil man) got into the fly population during their third instar, which caused the frog populace to develop an extra-thick skin, which hardened by Global Warming into a scaly substance resembling plaster.
The largest specimen discovered by concerned environmentalists was over 6 tons near Kyiv (Kiev) in the Ukraine.
Its carcass is currently on display.

 

This giant frog is a guilt offering to Gaia

civil truth (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 8:32PM EST (link)

…to atone for causing global warming that has caused a collapse in frog populations.

Just like the Phillistines designed five gold tumors as a guilt offering for having captured the Ark of the Covenant, which resulted in outbreaks of tumors among their people. [I Samuel 6:4-5]

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

 

Fines imposed from deforestation

monstermom (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 8:51PM EST (link)

will fund the construction of a lake, stocked with living Japanese Koi and carp, planting of white and pink flowering chestnuts and lilies, and a massive 6 ton bronze frog in downtown Kyiv just in time for Independence Day on August 24.

The statue and lake mark the end of the ‘Year of the Frog” celebrations. It is hoped that the statue will remind people that conservation is critical if we are to curtail sharp declines in reptile and amphibian populations around the world due to habitat loss, pollution, and global warming.

http://www.eaza.net/amphibian/Act_Kyiv.pdf

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

Dear God...

montanan (Diary) Wednesday, July 1st at 2:29AM EST (link)

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can actually believe that this would be printed in the New York Times or National Geographic.

Oh wait…what? This isn’t a joke? OH FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!!!!

 
 

Much like the unusually cold weather

Return to Revolution (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 9:02PM EST (link)

experienced worldwide over the last year, the presence of giant bronze frogs only proves that global warming is real AND man-made.

Out of hand Constitutional fetishist

 

The lake is alive with the sound of "alive carps"

lmiller25 (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 12:02AM EST (link)

It seems to me that the citizens of Kyiv were so excited about the potential for a lake with “alive carps” in their city that they went on a mad deforestation tear. That deforestation led to the fines that will now fund their fair lake. However, it’s a sad tale of destruction because as we all know, forests are huge carbon sinks, able to suck up tons of CO2 in a single bound. Without the trees, more CO2 = more global warming. All because Kyivians like pretty things, and alive carps.

 

The artist is having hallucinations

Raven (Diary) Saturday, June 20th at 12:40AM EST (link)

and the person who authorized putting the frog in public is dazed because of the heatstroke brought on by the higher temperatures.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

 

The frog and new lake denizens are part of the city's

Andy W. Saturday, June 20th at 3:53PM EST (link)

Carp and trade policy

Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)

 

Doesn't Kiev get to be, like, -50 in the wintertime?

montanan (Diary) Wednesday, July 1st at 2:35AM EST (link)